Ithaca Climate Summary for October 2002

Temperature

• With an average temperature of 47.8 degrees, the month averaged 0.6 degrees cooler than normal.
• This was the first cooler-than-normal month since May and only the second in the last thirteen months.
• The first 13 days of the month averaged 7 degrees warmer than normal. Sixteen of the last eighteen days were cooler than normal and averaged 6 degrees below the thirty-year average.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 82 degrees on the 1st.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 20 degrees on the 31st.

Precipitation

• The October precipitation total was 2.89 inches, which represented 89% of normal.
• This was 1.09 inches more than last October.
• Ten of the last thirteen monhts have been drier than normal.
• Year-to-date precipitation now stands at 32.86 inches, 1.74 inches above normal.

Snowfall

• This was the ninth consecutive October with no measurable snowfall.